“You Still Believe Like a Jew!”: Polemical Comparisons and Other Eastern Christian Rhetoric Associating Muslims with Jews from the Seventh to Ninth Centuries
Patriarch Timothy I and Theodore bar Koni, late eighth-century members of the Church of the East, brand Muslims as “new Jews,” in Timothy’s words, on account of their refusal to accept Christian doctrines about Christ. Like many other Eastern Christians, these authors employ the discourse of anti-J...
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Language: | English |
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CERES / KHK Bochum
2022-05-01
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Series: | Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer |
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Online Access: | https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9643 |